Mitchell Lions Minor Rookie Wolfe team wins title, News, Minor Rookie Wolfe, 7U Minor Rookie, 2017 (Mitchell Minor Baseball)

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Jul 16, 2017 | adam wolfe | 1911 views
Mitchell Lions Minor Rookie Wolfe team wins title
Minor rookie wolfe team went 3-0 to win the Mitchell tournament, with wins over Mitchell team harris, lucan/ilderton and goderich

Rookies capture tournament title

 

The Mitchell lions club minor rookie wolfe team captured there own tournament title with a perfect 3-0 record on the weekend. The locals started the tournament off against local rivals Mitchell team harris. The defence was strong for both teams in the early innings. Logan Montgomery and ellie macarthur were making some nice plays in the field to secure some outs. Then on offence masen Houghton was hittin the ball hard off the machine to drive in multiple runs. In the deciding innings tyler verberne and Weston bannon came together on a nice put out to secure the 16-10 win. In the second game of the day the team knew a win would send them directly to finals. They had a tough task against an intense Lucan/ilderton team. The locals played from behind all game, Selina gethke and Brayden baxter then came up in some pivotal spots and knocked in some runs. The turning point of the game was when Mitchells tough defense came up big and put an end to lucan/ildertons rally with a big catch by Montgomery. Brady brown started the the rally in the final and Houghton knocked in the winning run for the walk off win in a tight 14-13 contest. In the final the locals came up against goderich who knocked off Mitchell team wood in a thrilling extra inning semi final game. In the final game of the day both teams were a little tired after such a long day of ball games. The defences for both teams were unable to stop eachothers potent offence. Until verberne stepped up big for the locals making all three outs in one inning. In the final innings ray wolfe smacked one of his 5 doubles on the day to drive in 2 runs. Ray and Connor wolfe led the offence all day for locals with connor slamming 6 doubles and driving in 10 runs in the tournament. In the end Mitchell scratched out a 21-19 win the finals.  It was a great day for the young team and the first of many tournament wins for this young talented group of ball players.


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